Data Risk Manager

Business Unit:  Operational Risk
Salary range: up to circa £70,000 per annum DOE + red-hot benefits
Location:  Remote, UK Flexible
Contract type: Permanent

Give your career some Virgin va-va-voom

Our Team

Operational Risk Management is a dynamic, exciting, and growing team at the heart of Virgin Money. The team plays a vital role in ensuring that the business manages operational risk through oversight, assurance and business partnering. Core accountabilities include, establishing the change framework and ensuring payment risk, technology and cyber risk, and third-party risk are mitigated and appropriately managed.

What you’ll be doing

• This is a high-profile role, with senior level exposure, in which you’ll need to leverage all your data skills to deliver real impact and to help improve Virgin Money’s operational risk profile.
• Managing relationships at all levels within the Risk department and across 1st line functions.
• Active oversight and constructive challenge of data related risks, issues, and key controls, ensuring a disciplined approach to risk management.
• Working with 1st Line to ensure that the Data Management Policy is fully embedded within Virgin Money and is being complied with.
• Staying abreast of industry developments, in best practice data management and emerging technologies, and ensuring these best practices are socialised within Virgin Money.
• Oversight of data related aspects of change programs
• Contributing high quality insight and opinion to Risk Management reporting at all levels, such as Operational Risk Committee and Board Risk Committee.

We need you to have

• In depth, practitioner level experience of Data risk management within Banking or Financial Services.
• A formal professional qualification in a data related discipline.
• Well-developed and honed confidence and influencing skills in dealing with executives and senior management.
• A breadth of experience in data related concepts such as DCAM, BCBS239, General Data Protection Regulations, Cloud considerations etc.
• The ability to take a forensic approach to solving data problems and the ability to identify opportunities for improvement.

It’s a bonus if you have but not essential

• Knowledge of working with Industry leading meta data tools.
• Understanding of Agile methodologies and Six Sigma management techniques.

Red Hot Rewards

• Generous holidays – 38.5 days annual leave (including bank holidays and prorated if Part–Time) plus the option to buy more
• Up to five extra paid well-being days per year
• 20 weeks paid, gender-neutral family leave (52 weeks in total) for expectant parents and those looking to adopt
• Market-leading pension
• Free private medical cover, income protection and life assurance
• Flexible benefits include Cycle to Work, wellness and health assessments, and critical illness
• Ability to work anywhere in the UK (where the role allows)

And there’s no waiting around, you’ll enjoy these benefits from day one.

Feeling insatiably curious about this role? Apply as soon as you can. If we’re lucky to receive a lot of interest, we may close the advert early and would hate you to miss out.

We’re all about helping you Live a Life More Virgin, so happy to talk flexible working with you.

Say hello to Virgin Money
We’re making great strides towards achieving our ambition of becoming the UK’s best digital bank.  As a full-service digital bank with a heritage stretching back over 180 years, we`re a workforce to be reckoned with.  We’re putting the full power of our experience behind disruptive ideas that reinvent the role a bank plays in people’s lives. We strive to create positive experiences for our millions of customers and our purpose, ‘Making You Happier About Money’, underpins everything we do. We believe in doing banking differently, innovating and working together to make a real difference. Join us and Live a Life More Virgin that empowers you with choice and flexibility in how you work.

Be yourself at Virgin Money
Our purpose is to make people happier about money, this means seeing and feeling the world as our customers do by creating a workforce that reflects the rich diversity of our customers and communities.  We’re committed to creating an inclusive culture where colleagues feel safe and inspired to contribute, speak up and be heard.

As a Disability Confident Leader, we’re committed to removing any obstacles to inclusion.  If you need any reasonable adjustments or support making your application, contact our Talent Acquisition team

Now the legal bit
Living A Life More Virgin allows our colleagues to be based anywhere in the UK (if the role allows it), but we’ll need you to confirm you have the right to work in the UK.

If you’re successful in securing a role with us, there are some checks you need to complete before starting. These include credit and criminal record checks and three years’ worth of satisfactory references. If the role is part of the Senior Manager Regime and Certification Regime, it requires enhanced pre-employment checks – we’ll ask for six years of regulatory references, and once in the role, you’ll be subject to periodic employment checks.